slander
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- slandre (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈslɑːndə/, (obsolete) /ˈslandə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈslændɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈslaːndə/, /ˈslændə/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈslaːndə/, /ˈslɛndə/
- Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ), -ɑːndə
Noun
[edit]slander (countable and uncountable, plural slanders)
- A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:slander
Antonyms
[edit]- glorification (falsely praising statement)
Translations
[edit]false or unsupported spoken malicious statement
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Verb
[edit]slander (third-person singular simple present slanders, present participle slandering, simple past and past participle slandered)
- To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act III:
- Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough?
Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him.
Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
Synonyms
[edit]- defame
- libel (always in writing)
- See also Thesaurus:defame
Antonyms
[edit]- glorify (baselessly speak well of)
Translations
[edit]utter a slanderous statement about
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